Cairo, Red Sea & Wadi El Natrun

Tour Price includes

* Meet & assist upon arrival and departure.

* All transfers by a private air-conditioned vehicle.

* Accommodation in Hotels including daily breakfast.

* All sightseeing tours in Cairo including Egyptologist guide, entrance fees & transfers.

* Portage when needed

* All taxes & service charge

Tour Price does not include

* Entry visa to Egypt

* Any optional tours mentioned in the itinerary

* Internal flights

* Meals except where indicated

* Drinks and any personal expenses

Epic journeys

Insurrance

Tour guide

Transportation

Tour Overview

Day 01

Arrival

Apple tours representative will meet & greet you at Cairo International Airport, and handle all your procedures through passport control, luggage area & customs formalities. Then you will be transferred to your hotel by a private air-conditioned vehicle. Tomorrow enjoy your churches tours.

Day 02

Old Cairo

Proceed to the famous churches at old Coptic Cairo to see the Hanging Church, where the nave is suspended from the old Babylon fortress; the Church of St. Barbara, the 4th century Church of Abu Serga (St. Sergius & Bacchus), as well as the Jewish Synagogue and Coptic Museum. Back to hotel and overnight in Cairo.

Day 03

Wadi Natroun

Enjoy an excursion to the Coptic Monasteries in the desert at Wadi Natroun. Notable among them is the Baramus Monastery, which was built at the site where Macarius the Great settled in 340 AD and is still inhabited by monks. Back to hotel and overnight in Cairo.

Day 04

Red Sea mountains

Trip to the Coptic Monastery of St. Antony and the Monastery of St. Paul, which lie at the foot of the Red Sea mountains in the Eastern Desert. St. Anthony was among the founders of Christian monasticism and St. Paul was one of the first hermits. The monasteries, founded in the 4th and 5th centuries, are both still occupied. Back to hotel and overnight in Cairo.

Day 05

Maadi

Visit the Church of the Holy Virgin with its three cupolas on the banks of the Nile at Maadi. Move on to the Monastery of St. Simon (Simeon) the Tanner, dramatically situated in the Mokattam mountain, on the outskirts of Cairo. St. Simon was a 10th century saint whose faith is said to have moved this mountain. Back to hotel and overnight in Cairo.

Day 06

St. Menas at Maryut

Trip to the recently built monastery of the celebrated martyr St. Menas at Maryut, near Alexandria. Built on the site of the 4th century shrine, which was the ‘Lourdes of the ancient world’, the site also comprises various excavated churches. Back to hotel and overnight in Cairo.

Day 07

Cairo’s Coptic Churches

Enjoy an excursion to some of Cairo’s Coptic Churches: see the 10th century Church of the Holy Virgin in Haret El Roum, the Coptic Cathedral at Abbassia area. Back to hotel and overnight in Cairo.